Industry Collaborators
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Advocacy & Project Management Amy Schmit and Kimberly Kohl, business manager at UB's Technology Incubator
From Fortune 100 companies to innovative startups, some of the world’s leading private sector entities choose to partner with UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences (CBLS).
Our industry partners come to us for many reasons, including:
- Core facilities in genomics, supercomputing, proteomics and microfabrication
- Faculty investigators from UB — one of the top 200 universities in the world
- Shared equipment for nucleic acid amplification and analysis, imaging, protein studies, and more
- Business development
- Workforce development
Expertise in bioinformatics & life sciences
The CBLS engages with companies in numerous life sciences areas, including:
- Biotechnology
- Biomedical informatics
- Diagnostics
- Medical devices
- Pharmaceuticals
- Research and development
Successful collaborations
In recent years, we have worked with many industry leaders, including:
- Abbott
- AMGEN
- Bausch & Lomb
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Dell
- Genetech
- Greatbatch
- Illumina
- Johnson & Johnson
- Labvantage
- Medtronic
- Merck
- Moog
- Novartis
- Pfizer
- Roche
- ScriptPro
- Sequenom
- Toshiba